The Baster Looking For More Family-Friendly Name?
By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 12, 2010 4:35 pm EST
According to Vulture, test screenings of The Baster have revealed a popular distaste for the title. Okay, in and of itself the title is barely offensive but it would seem these test audiences are finding it a little too on the nose in how it makes the film’s central maguffin, a turkey baster used for artificial insemination, too front and center.
The script by Allan Loeb is really rather good, and certainly isn’t just lowest common denominator stuff. It’s about a switcheroo stunt with a baster full of semen and a women who finds out she may have conceived with the ‘help’ of a different man to the one intended. In the picture, said woman is Jennifer Aniston so I should hardly be surprised that the studio is looking to keep all sharp edges out of the marketing. I guess they can call it anything they want – Friends: The Movie, if they must – if it means the dopes are more likely to line up with the smarts.
The Baster Looking For More Family-Friendly Name?
By Brendon Connelly/Feb. 12, 2010 4:35 pm EST
According to Vulture, test screenings of The Baster have revealed a popular distaste for the title. Okay, in and of itself the title is barely offensive but it would seem these test audiences are finding it a little too on the nose in how it makes the film’s central maguffin, a turkey baster used for artificial insemination, too front and center.
The script by Allan Loeb is really rather good, and certainly isn’t just lowest common denominator stuff. It’s about a switcheroo stunt with a baster full of semen and a women who finds out she may have conceived with the ‘help’ of a different man to the one intended. In the picture, said woman is Jennifer Aniston so I should hardly be surprised that the studio is looking to keep all sharp edges out of the marketing. I guess they can call it anything they want – Friends: The Movie, if they must – if it means the dopes are more likely to line up with the smarts.
The script by Allan Loeb is really rather good, and certainly isn’t just lowest common denominator stuff. It’s about a switcheroo stunt with a baster full of semen and a women who finds out she may have conceived with the ‘help’ of a different man to the one intended. In the picture, said woman is Jennifer Aniston so I should hardly be surprised that the studio is looking to keep all sharp edges out of the marketing. I guess they can call it anything they want – Friends: The Movie, if they must – if it means the dopes are more likely to line up with the smarts.
